page_title: Kid Spark Education
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Kid Spark Education / Overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Rokenbok beams and chutes
context_page_description: Kid Spark Education is a nonprofit organization that develops and produces affordable Mobile STEM Labs and curriculum for Schools and Youth Service Organizations. The Rokenbok Toy Company was founded in 1995 by Paul Eichen in the United States to create an heirloom quality toy system. The first Rokenbok toys debuted at the 1997 American International Toy Fair in New York City. In 2010 the company made a substantial push researching the effect of media, like Rokenbok, on developing minds. In 2015 the company transitioned into a 501 and completed the development of their first 4 classroom specific products called Mobile STEM Labs. Since then, Kid Spark Education has placed Mobile STEM Labs in over 22 states across the country.
  Kid Spark Education has focused on developing applied technology and engineering learning experiences for K-8 students. They also provide free or subsidized Kid Spark Education programs to schools and youth organizations serving underserved children. Much of Kid Spark's work is focused on designing professional development tools that allow teachers and youth services providers to become confident STEM mentors.
context_section_description: Rokenbok is an educational toy that combines a modular construction system with interactive infrared controlled vehicles.  The system is expandable and can be added to and changed. Certain surfaces and platforms used in the Rokenbok constructions have a round-stud surface, making the toy compatible with Lego.
  Rokenbok features multiplayer; up to four players can operate any of up to eight vehicles simultaneously.  There are many different manufactured vehicles.  Players can operate a vehicle by themselves. Control of the vehicles use a controller similar to those of video game consoles with a D-pad for directional control and special function buttons and shoulder buttons for other functions. Rokenbok is non-violent by reinforcing cooperative play patterns that engage children in a positive way.  Rokenbok does not use licensed characters or cartoons.
caption: Beams and chutes
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